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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 369-392 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light foxing in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Opening of Parliament; Commencement of the Works of the First [Petropolis] Railway in Brazil (with engraving); short entry Life in Melbourne; Completion of the Submarine Telegraph; Earthmen from Port Natal (with engraving Boy and Girl of the Earthmen Tribe, From Port Natal); Entrance of the First Steamer Into Port Natal (with engraving); The Egyptian Steam-Frigate "Faid Gihaad" (with engraving); Pitcairn's Island (with two engravings); Railway Meetings; Opening of the New Parliament (with near-full-page engraving The Great Octagon, or Central Hall, New Houses of Parliament and engraving The Speaker's Chair, for the New House of Commons); Parliamentary Portraits (of James Whiteside and Charles Geach, each with portrait engraving); Free Trade Banquet at Manchester; short entry Free-Trade and the Diminution of Pauperism; The Gale of Last Week; The Crystal Palace at Sydenham (with engraving Artisan Boring Machinery for Obtaining Water for the New Crystal Palace at Sydenham); Railway Works at Alexandria (with engraving); The Tower of Garron (with engraving); Funeral of the Duke of Wellington - Right of Baronets to Place, The Funeral Car, The Lying in State, Preparations in St. Paul's (with two engravings: The Nave, by Gaslight; and Side Aisle, by Gaslight); Supplement includes: lead article The New Parliament; lengthy three-and-one-half page table Results of the General Election in 1852: English Counties, Welsh Counties, Scotch Counties, Irish Counties, English Cities and Boroughs, Welsh Cities and Boroughs, Scotch Cities and Boroughs, Irish Cities and Boroughs - containing Members and Candidates, Votes Polled, Registered Electors, Population, and Property Rated or Assessed to the Poor (or Inhabited Houses; Summary of the New Parliament; Alphabetical List of the Members; General Remarks; Constitution of the Parliament. The back cover of the Supplement contains a full-page announcement for the upcoming number of the Illustrated London News related to the State Funeral of The Duke of Wellington ("Will Be Published Next Week, November 13, 1852" although not appearing until the November 20, 1852 issue). N° de réf. du vendeur 006822
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